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Beyond subjective and objective in statistics
Andrew Gelman, Christian Hennig
We argue that the words "objectivity" and "subjectivity" in statistics discourse are used in a mostly unhelpful way, and we propose to replace each of them with broader collections…
Clustering strategy and method selection
Christian Hennig
This paper is a chapter in the forthcoming Handbook of Cluster Analysis, Hennig et al. (2015). For definitions of basic clustering methods and some further methodology, other chapt…
Flexible parametric bootstrap for testing homogeneity against clustering and assessing the number of clusters
Christian Hennig, Chien-Ju Lin
There are two notoriously hard problems in cluster analysis, estimating the number of clusters, and checking whether the population to be clustered is not actually homogeneous. Giv…
What are the true clusters?
Christian Hennig
Constructivist philosophy and Hasok Chang's active scientific realism are used to argue that the idea of "truth" in cluster analysis depends on the context and the clustering aims.…